Stern Show Artie takes another shot at Howard in Maxim Magazine

It is mostly typical Artie making excuses for Howard, but he did take a shot or two.

A year and a half later, my book was coming out. I didn’t wanna call them, but I was being respectful of a company, Random House, paying me big cash to write a book. I said, “I’ll at least try." Just to be a guest on the show and talk about the book, which every fan on Twitter was begging to happen. [Stern show producer]Gary [Dell'Abate] calls back a day later and he says, very coldly, "It’s just not going to happen." And I regret that I gave him the chance to say that, because I didn’t even want to make the call. I said, "OK" and hung up.

That's rough.

...And then, unbeknownst to me, the book company tries to buy ad time on the show, and this is when I really knew I was persona non grata. Ad sales never turns down anything. It could be dick cream. Random House was gonna pay top dollar, and they turned them down. That’s the first time I ever heard them doing that. Spincterine, where you put a mint in your ass to make it smell better? They took an ad for it. My book, which was No. 1 on the best seller list, they wouldn't do it because Howard put the kibosh on it personally. I said, "The guy hates my guts." I wrote him off the way he did me. I really wanted to have that long conversation in person where I said, "I’m sorry for becoming a heroin addict. We were doing great for 7 years. I apologize for that last year when I was a junkie."

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Do you ever see that happening on Howard's show?

No, it’s over. But coincidentally, about six months after that, Robin [Quivers] got sick. I went to Robin’s hospital in New York after her operation, very spontaneously, because I wanted to surprise her. And I walked into the room and Howard was there. He looked up and said, "Just what we need: Artie to make Robin laugh." And me and Howard and Robin were in the room alone for 45 minutes and we made her laugh, just like we were doing the news again. Howard had to leave, and I stayed for a few more hours. I hugged him outside and said, "Can we talk at some point?" He said, "Yeah."

I called him and he never called me back. That was the last time we spoke. I think he was just—like many people have done—"I'm writing Artie out of my life." That’s how Howard is and people respect him for that. He doesn’t take shit. But after a few years it started pissing me off. He brought something up on the air. I brought something up on my podcast. He eventually took the high road and said nice things and so did I. But the fact that someone I had that relationship with won’t see me in person for ten minutes, it’s astonishingly immature and crazy. It’s surreal to me.

"THE FACT THAT [STERN] WON’T SEE ME IN PERSON FOR TEN MINUTES, IT’S ASTONISHINGLY IMMATURE AND CRAZY. IT’S SURREAL TO ME."

"The only way he can get those [celebrity interviews] is to make the other parts of his show celeb-friendly and mainstream. America's Got Talent, changing Gary the Retard's name to Gary the Conquerer, not saying certain words, was a conscious decision to get those guests to come on. And it worked. But he’s sacrificed a lot of fans.

Artie is similar to Jackie, he would still be there if he made the right decisions in life. Howard owes him nothing. And besides, the new "evolved" Howard cannot be seen associating with someone like Artie. He is not famous enough.

Artie is similar to Jackie, he would still be there if he made the right decisions in life. Howard owes him nothing. And besides, the new "evolved" Howard cannot be seen associating with someone like Artie. He is not famous enough.

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Cutting ties from the show is fine. Howard is a phony pussy for not returning a personal call.

When artie dies howard will act like his widow and do his typical bullshit about thinking of artie.

If howard had any balls he would tell him how he feels himself instead of continually lying about it on the air.

When the closeted hypocrite and his ex hooker lame-brained beard of a horse-faced wife jockeyed (pardon the pun) for seating position at Ed Bradley's funeral but don't even bother to show up for Gary's dad's, did you need any more evidentiary piling on to confirm what a selfish asshole prick he is?

Cutting ties from the show is fine. Howard is a phony pussy for not returning a personal call.

When artie dies howard will act like his widow and do his typical bullshit about thinking of artie.

If howard had any balls he would tell him how he feels himself instead of continually lying about it on the air.

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This.

But the lack of transparency and any kind of human decency are the two most glaringly disgusting traits of the Wig. He has zero balls, except when he's threatening to "sock you in the nose.", which is funny because his nose fits snugly in a sock.